Heart of the Machine

Humanity went extinct two hundred years ago.

Qin Ye crawled out of the ruins. His mind was his own, but his body had been assembled by his father from silicon-based parts.

Half his face was metal, one eye glowed red, his right hand could turn into a sword, and his nuclear reactor kept buzzing.

A group of metal hulks roared at him from afar: "Eliminate all organic lifeforms."

Qin Ye pulled his sword from the concrete, a silicon servant's eyeball still stuck to the blade.

"Come on, you electronic beasts."

Before he died, his father left him three things: a pile of failed awakening logs, an unfinished scheme, and a sentence left unsaid.

Qin Ye had no intention of asking, "Am I human or metal?"

He planned to cut down his enemies first, then go back and ask his father.

Though the old man had been dead for two hundred years.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.